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Poster: BNRToast Date: Dec 21, 2014 4:31pm
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

You are owed a prize and as you show true desperation, the 2nd show from the taped series will be uploaded for you.
Another fan has emailed us a broadcast list of the shows which is in an entirely different date order but is 1984. The shows must have been broadcast at each stations discretion.

As stated on our main page, the files here are from home air-checks or AFRS discs. It is common for there to be several versions as Bob and Ray had many fans and each one had different methods of taping.

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Poster: John W. Norvis Date: Dec 21, 2014 8:59pm
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

Hi,

If you'd be so kind, shows 3, 4 and 6 are the shows on the list you posted that I'd be most interested in and are the least complete on the Best of Bob & Ray collection.

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Poster: John W. Norvis Date: Dec 28, 2014 10:00pm
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

Just so you know, the show you uploaded and labeled as "#2" is from 1983, not 1984 and is from the first public radio series they did.
This post was modified by John W. Norvis on 2014-12-29 06:00:51

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Poster: BNRToast Date: Mar 21, 2015 8:17am
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

Here is #6, when Webley Webster and the MacBeebee twins open the public radio show.
https://archive.org/details/BobAndRayPRS0061984

It would be useful to us if you identified your source for the dating of these shows. All the shows at Bob and Ray for the Truly Desperate are from our own tapes and notes of the episodes. The dates on these episodes are the dates written on them at the time of recording. In this case B6 spent two weeks getting each show off his radio. It is a loss that the machine had a malfunction during #8s taping.

And just a reminder, none of the files here are from commercial tapes or CD's. They are all the work of some fans loyal to the genius of Bob and Ray.

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Poster: John W. Norvis Date: Apr 2, 2015 1:53am
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

Thanks so much for posting another show from the public radio series! My source is primarily my memory as I was listening to all of these shows in New York City as they first aired on radio station WNYC, particularly series 2 that originally aired during springtime 1984 and concluded around the time of the Carnegie Hall performances in late May/early June 1984. The show you just posted (and labeled as #6) with Chatting w/ Dr. Chesney, Fred Falvy the Do-it-yourselfer, Wally Ballou and the Bannister Sliding Competition, etc. is from series 2, and I'd say most likely aired in early May 1984. As I stated in an earlier post, the episode you've labeled as #1 was the final episode of series 2 from 1984 and as result originally aired in New York (and elsewhere) several weeks after what's labeled here as episode #6. These are reasonably accurate resources for the original air dates of the Bob & Ray Public Radio Show series: http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Bob+and+Ray+Public+Radio+Show http://members.tripod.com/j_withers/bnr_on_npr.htm If I were a betting man, I'd actually wager that each of the 1984 shows aired in New York City approximately 2 weeks earlier than the dates listed in those links. My reasoning is, as I stated in my first post here, the episode you've labeled as #1 originally contained NPR pledge breaks when aired, and one of the gifts for people pledging money to NPR was tickets to one of the Bob & Ray shows at Carnegie Hall, mere days after the airing of the show - I distinctly recall that because the Carnegie Hall shows were so close to the airdate of this episode, NPR was only letting people pick up the tickets at the box office since it was much too short notice to mail them. In all likelihood the episode could not have aired any later than May 29, 1984 - the two Carnegie Hall performances by Bob & Ray were May 31 and June 2, 1984. Apart from the possible 2 week delay, the sequence those shows aired in the links I posted above is definitely accurate; my family taped them off the radio as they aired and we taped them in the order they are listed in the links.
This post was modified by John W. Norvis on 2015-04-02 08:53:26

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Poster: BNRToast Date: Apr 3, 2015 1:04pm
Forum: bobandraytoaster Subject: Re: New contest with prize !

Thanks for mentioning those informative web sites. They are a labor of love. And we here are always interested in reading about others B&R experiences.
BNRFTTD normally relies on our own records and notes to date the tape reels we digitize and upload. B2 has invested uncounted hours over the past ten years cataloging our tapes of the WOR series . Deciphering handwriting can be both a puzzle and a mystery. Attached is a small example of the dreaded Wondolowski handwritten notes to demonstrate that issue.
We would be interested in comparing our uploads to the episodes you mention. It is possible there are edits or modified shows from different broadcasts. Some of our tapes duplicate shows but have different portions on them. If you would digitize and upload your version of the tape we could do a comparison. Just place the file in community audio and ask for it to be moved to Old Time Radio.
Thanks.

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